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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. Like my colleagues who have spoken before me, I also want to congratulate the Co-Chairs of the Committee, the Senator for Meru, Sen. Kiraitu Murungi and the Senator for Siaya, Sen. James Orengo. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since we were elected, we have been trying to find our footing, particularly in how we conduct our business as a Senate. I think that this is what inspired this particular process; to have a review of our Standing Orders. As many of the previous speakers have suggested, this is not something which we do every other day. But since we are doing it now, we must do it right. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for me, there is just one pertinent point. I want to laud the Committee for not only trying to manage committees in a sizeable manner by splitting some of the already existing Committees, but particularly the creation of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committees, which if you look at the mandate stipulated, are directly the mandates that every Kenyan has been asking us to perform as the Senate. I do laud the work that has been done by the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs, particularly with respect to accountability, but the Senate needed to assert itself and its authority, particularly based on constitutional functions of the issues that we were mandated to actually oversight. I think this will be an extremely important Committee of the Senate. It will assert the Senate’s authority with respect to the resources in the counties. I think that many of us in the last couple of weeks have been treated to very horrific media accounts of how monies at the county level have been squandered and massive allegations made against The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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